Verse 6

For trouble does not spring from the dust, nor does suffering sprout from the ground.

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Referenced Verses

  • Deut 32:27 : 27 but I feared the provocation of the enemy, lest their adversaries misunderstand and say, 'Our own hand has triumphed; it was not the LORD who did all this.'
  • 1 Sam 6:9 : 9 Watch to see: if it goes up along the road to its own territory, toward Beth Shemesh, then it is the LORD who has brought this great disaster upon us. But if it does not, then we will know it was not his hand that struck us; it happened by chance.
  • Job 34:29 : 29 When He gives quietness, who can condemn? When He hides His face, who can behold Him? Yet He watches over both nation and man alike.
  • Ps 90:7 : 7 We are consumed by your anger, and terrified by your wrath.
  • Isa 45:7 : 7 I form the light and create darkness; I make peace and create calamity. I, the LORD, do all these things.
  • Lam 3:38 : 38 Is it not from the mouth of the Most High that both calamities and good come?
  • Hos 10:4 : 4 They speak mere words, making covenants with false oaths, and judgment springs up like poisonous weeds in the furrows of the field.
  • Amos 3:6 : 6 Is a trumpet blown in a city, and the people are not afraid? Does disaster come to a city unless the Lord has done it?
  • Heb 12:15 : 15 See to it that no one falls short of the grace of God and that no root of bitterness springs up to cause trouble and defile many.